Where to buy Yummy Bites, cheese bread rolls - the Brazilian "pao-de-queijo"

RAIMBOW ACRES - Venice - CA
13208 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles - CA 90066
Phone: 310-306 8330

STELLA LUCY - San Clemente - CA
108 S. El Camino Real
San Clemente - CA 92672
Phone: 949-542 4631


WHOLE FOODS - Pasadena - CA
465 South Arroyo Parkway
Pasadena - CA 92672
Phone: 626-204 2266

WHOLE FOODS - Santa Clarita - CA
24130 Valencia Blvd.
Santa Clarita - CA 91355
Phone: 661-260 2322


WHOLE FOODS - Thousand Oaks - CA
740 North Moorpark Rd.
Thousand Oaks - CA 91360
Phone: 805-777 4730

WHOLE FOODS - Glendale - CA
331 North Glendale Ave.
Glendale - CA 91206
Phone: 818-548 3695


WHOLE FOODS - El Segundo - CA
760 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
El Segundo - CA 90245
Phone: 310-333 1900

ACAI CAFE - Encinitas - CA
2031 San Elijo Ave.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea - CA
Phone: 760-230-2380

RIO DELI - San Clemente - CA
647 Camino de Los Mares suite # 120
San Clemente - CA
Phone: 760-917 3396

HANSON'S MARKET - San Clemente - CA
415 Avenida Pico #P
San Clemente - CA 92672
Phone: 949-218 1690

  WHOLE FOODS- La Jolla

8825 Villa La Jolla Dr
La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
Phone: 858-642 6700

   WHOLE FOODS – San Diego

711 University Ave
San Diego, CA 92103 USA
Phone: 619-294 2800

If you don't see your favorite store in this list, you may ask the manager or buyer of the store in your area to consider providing you and other customers with gluten-free Yummy Bites cheese bread rolls.

Yummy Bites, may be contacted at: thomas@yummybitesglutenfree.com or
Phone: 818-3097798

Item Name: Cheese bread rolls Yummy Bites
Frozen Dough : UPC - 0 94922 10908 8

Thank you ; )

Elda Antonio

Orange County gluten-free food fair

The 3rd Orange County annual gluten-free food fair happened last Friday, October 2nd in the beauty city of New Port Beach - CA.

The event was a fantastic! A wide variety of vendors with fabulous gluten-free products were there displaying their products and giving away samples.

I may say that Yummy Bites was a big hit at the fair. We received so many glowing comments about the traditional cheese bread rolls (pao-de-queijo), the garlic and herb cheese bread rolls and the mini mozzarella pizzas.

It was delightfull to see people all ages mingling around our table tasting and recommending our products to other attendants.

It's a great feeling to bring such a tasty gluten-free rolls and pizza for people that for medical reasons need to follow a special diet.

Yummy Bites put a big smile in so many faces that day!

Congratulations for the organizers that put toghether such a great event. I'm looking forward to participate again next year.

Here is the website for the Orange County Celiacs:

http://www.occeliacs.com/index.html

Yummy Bites website is: http://www.yummtbitesglutenfree.com/

WHAT IS GLUTEN?

As I sad before, I owned and run a Brazilian restaurant in Woodland Hills, CA where I cooked delicious recipes inspired from the vibrant culture of Brazil.

Of course we had to serve the pao-de-queijo in our restaurant. The relatioship Brazilians have with it borders on obsessive. I didn't know how to make them thou. For some reason I always thought that was too much time consuming and hard to make them. My mom used to make them all the time and serve with coffee. She was native of the beautiful state of Minas Gerais place where the pao-de-queijo was originated. There was nobody in the world better than my mom to give me the recipe and teach me how to make it.

Very soon, our cheese bread rolls (pao-de-queijo) was a complete success in our restaurant! It was great and a rewarding feeling to see our American customers popping them in their mouth one after another. There is something special about this little breads. They are very different from the majority of cheese breads. You have to try them to understand what I'm talking about.

One of our customers asked me: Is this cheese bread gluten-free? Well, I had no clue what gluten was. I never heard that word before. The lady didn't tell me much about gluten. She just told me that she was celiac and she couldn't eat anything with wheat, barley or rye.
Since "pao-de-queijo" is made entirely with tapioca starch, they are naturally and completely gluten-free.

At the end of the day, as soon as I got home from the restaurant I run to the computer to research and learn more about gluten. Here is what I found:

Gluten, in its most simplest definition, is a kind of protein that tends to exist in wheat, oat, rye and barley. Eating foods containing gluten causes damage to the small intestine in people primarily suffering from celiac or gluten intolerance. However, the diet can also help those with:

Autism
ADHD
Fibromyalgia
Dermatitis Herpetiformis

This is how I started my jorney on producing delicious GF products.

I hope my blog helpes answer the question - "What is Gluten" - and explain why some people need to avoid it.